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Popular car-sharing startup Lyft has raised $60 million in a major new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm started by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen. The new funding comes as the ride-sharing market is exploding, with upstart firms like Lyft, Uber, and Sidecar leveraging smart phone technology to provide alternatives to traditional transportation options like taxi-cabs and rental cars.

Popular car-sharing startup Lyft has raised $60 million in a major new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm started by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen. The new funding comes as the ride-sharing market is exploding, with upstart firms like Lyft, Uber, and Sidecar leveraging smart phone technology to provide alternatives to traditional transportation options like taxi-cabs and rental cars.

Matt Sandler's used to getting chased after. But for once, it's his tech knowhow, not his musical skills, that have made him a hot commodity. Investors, we hear, are salivating over his iPad app, Chromatik, which has seen "rabid adoption" among Sandler's fellow musicians, a source tells us.